GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 631

HOUSE BILL 37

 

AN ACT TO RECODIFY CERTAIN CRIMINAL STATUTES REGARDING JAIL CONFINEMENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-260 is recodified as G.S. 162-55.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 14-261 is recodified as G.S. 162-56, and is rewritten as follows:

"Persons committed to the custody of a sheriff shall be confined in the facilities designated by law for such confinement, and shall not be confined in any other place. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit or limit the authority of a sheriff to house prisoners committed to his custody in quarters, approved by the Department of Human Resources, other than the county jail."

Sec. 3.  G.S.  14-264 is recodified as G.S. 162-57.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of June, 1983.